Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:11:47 +0100
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 03:47:12PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > Microsoft changes the system required to kill the fast-boot every
> > > so often, almost surely to make it difficult for users of Linux
> > > to access Windows from the Linux system.
> >
> > That seems highly unlikely: it's a tiny number of users, and not
> > only they're not a threat but annoying them won't bring any benefit
> > to MS.
>
> This is a pattern which I like to call "emergent evil". Most likely
> nobody does it on purpose, yet it happens often enough to annoy
> competing ecosystems. Magic!
>
NTFS has been NTFS since the 90s, while Linux has had ext2, ext3, ext4,
Reiser among other filesystems. Is it not likely that 'NTFS' has really
been a similar parade of different filesystems with each version of
Windows retaining the code to read previous versions? Occam's Razor?
--
Joe
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